The legal and jurisprudential status of the meeting for revocation of workers' representatives

Abstract

Despite the fact that, according to regulations, our system of labour relations is characterized by the prevalence of the institutional participation and the irrelevance of the meeting model regarding decision-making, it should be noted that the statutory regulations provide the workers with a special mechanism to control their representatives' behaviour and conduct.

This control mechanism enables the workers who are displeased at their representatives' conduct to terminate their term of office by revoking it. The procedure which is provided for in order to show this revocation is, in fact, the meeting of the workers (article 67.3.II Workers' Statute).

However, as the regulations barely outline the revocation procedure, the legal and jurisprudential doctrine has been the only way to resolve the conflict situations concerning this issue and it has also determined and defined the range of this control mechanism, which is a resource given by the legislator to the workers.

This work analyses the aforementioned legal and jurisprudential status of the revocation meeting.